Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (and an apology)

2008-08-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 12:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > > Having source available is not enough for Software to be Free. It > > might come as a surprise to some, but it's not even enough for it to > > be Open Source. > > Perhaps you don't even realize that the word

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:38 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 14:35 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > >May be time to change my choice of OS, or just to keep using it >and start bitching, because that seems to be what you

Re: Kde on F9 -died

2008-08-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 10 August 2008 22:53, Bob Hartung wrote: > Hi all - having trouble with KDE on F9. While adjusting the background > the desktop disappeared. I am left with a black screen and a white > cursor arrow - no desktop. > >Tried ./kde/share/config/plasma* but this did not reset things. I d

Re: Kde on F9 -died - Restore solved

2008-08-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 10 August 2008 23:42, Bob Hartung wrote: > >Am I correct that if the .kde directory does not exist in > /home/whatever-user that kde will start up in a default configuration? > Yes, that is correct. Anne -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www

spawnve on Linux

2008-08-11 Thread Calin Iaru
I cannot find the documentation for spawnve and I need a function that creates a process and returns. execve is not suitable because it will execute that process in place. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Bjørn Ivar Johnsen
Vennlig hilsen Bjørn Ivar Johnsen Den 11. aug.. 2008 kl. 03.12 skrev Björn Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] e>: Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: Den 10. aug.. 2008 kl. 22.00 skrev Mike Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Try going with the VESA driver initially. Just edit the xorg.conf. How, exactly, do I e

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-11 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 17:45 -0700, Paul Newell wrote: > right now I am burning 6 CD boot media to see if the CD is at least > understood for booting. You only need to burn the first disc to test that. It's the one that you boot up. The rest aren't "booted." The smallest ISO to test whether your

Re: Intel 965GM chipset with compiz

2008-08-11 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:42 +1000, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote: > Turning off smooth scrolling in Firefox might help (about:config and > search for smooth), but then again, you won't get 'smooth > scrolling' :) I've never seen the point of that, what you get is slow/sticky page crawling, like someone

configuration for gdmgreeter

2008-08-11 Thread michael
I've tried and tried but failed and failed to determine where the setting is for the delay post wrong user/pass at the gdmgreeter screen. It current seems about 90 secs which is a bit too long (I'd be more than happy to have a longer delay between attempts on ext ssh connections but not when sittin

Re: spawnve on Linux

2008-08-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Calin Iaru writes: I cannot find the documentation for spawnve and I need a function that creates a process and returns. execve is not suitable because it will execute that process in place. This is done by fork(), followed by exec(). "man fork". pgpMWXUgAdwfS.pgp Description: PGP signat

CUPS

2008-08-11 Thread seeism
Hi, I installed cups in my fedora 8 system.I wanted to check the mime.convs and mime.types file in the /etc/cups folder but it is not installed in that path. Why so Seeism -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CUPS-tp18922498p18922498.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing

Re: time/ntp[d]

2008-08-11 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 11:15 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > michael wrote, On 08/07/2008 10:47 AM: > > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:40 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > >> michael wrote, On 08/06/2008 11:42 AM: > >>> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 09:20 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > michael wrote, On 08/06/20

Re: spawnve on Linux

2008-08-11 Thread Calin Iaru
I used posix_spawn. The api accomplishes what I need. - Original Message From: Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: For users of Fedora Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 1:02:58 PM Subject: Re: spawnve on Linux Calin Iaru writes: > I cannot find the documentation for spawnve and I nee

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:26 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > > Vennlig hilsen > Bjørn Ivar Johnsen > > Den 11. aug.. 2008 kl. 03.12 skrev Björn Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > e>: > > > Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > >> Den 10. aug.. 2008 kl. 22.00 skrev Mike Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Try go

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-11 Thread Paul Newell
Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 17:45 -0700, Paul Newell wrote: right now I am burning 6 CD boot media to see if the CD is at least understood for booting. You only need to burn the first disc to test that. It's the one that you boot up. The rest aren't "booted." The smallest ISO t

Fedora 9, WarCraft3 troubles

2008-08-11 Thread Makurin Roman
Hi All! My configuration: System: Fedora 9 i386 with all latest updates. Graphics Card: ATI Radeon X700Pro (RV410) Im using opensource radeon driver and there is no problem with native opengl games, eg Quake3. Also I didn`t have any problem with Warcraft in wine on symilar system(grappbics cards

Re: F9, F8 periodicially hanging upon user login, dbus zombie process, etc.

2008-08-11 Thread Cameron Mura
Hi all, Still haven't been able to solve the F9 locking problem (email below), part of the delay being that I don't know what exactly triggers it (so can't easily test it, and have to wait some time (~ 1 day) before it falls into this lock-able state...). But, in case it's of any help to any

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 08:43 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > It is almost confusing with all the different distributions there is > of > Linux, but I think that if you are happy with one, there is no reason > to > change to another. BUT, I must admit that I think Fedora looks better > in a > way,

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > The full path to the file is "/etc/xorg.conf". Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:26 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > You see I finally got those "yum update" and the nvidia driver > installation to work, (I think, Surely after I wrote the command > "yum > update", after giving the new repo adress for nvidia, it started > downloading, at an incre

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (and an apology)

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:31 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Linus Torvalds advocates developers being able to choose their own > licensing. etc. etc. etc. Please don't wake the demon. This thread died a natural death over a week ago, to universal relief. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-lis

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:29 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > > > 2008/8/10 Fennix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I think that Ken Murray has the right idea. My experience > with the installation of F9 is the same. When I do the media > check it repo

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:47:13 -0700 Dan Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any advice in how to do this up properly? chainloader is what I use. I've got a partition with nothing but grub on it (used to be a /boot partition for an old fedora, and I kept it a

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/8/10 Russell Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 454127 > > And it was closer to a month ago than two months. My bad. Still a long > time though. What the specfile does goes against existing guidance. If you want static libs then the package should provide a -static subpackage. For example loo

F9 joining a windows domain

2008-08-11 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi. I' trying to join my Fedora box to the corporate Windows domain. I tried "Domain Membership" from Samba Documentation, but it's doesn't seems what I want. I want my machine simply as a client, mimicking a XP machine (something like this.) I changed the lines in my /etc/samba/smb.conf: *

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-11 Thread Fennix
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:29 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > > > > > > 2008/8/10 Fennix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > I think that Ken Murray has the right idea. My experience > > with the inst

yum search behaviour

2008-08-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Is there an command-line option for recent yum releases so that it displays package descriptions in a 'yum search'? I do prefer the one line results, but occasionally I'd like to do a search the old way too :-) Or is 'yum info' the only way to go? -- Regards, Stewart Williams -- fedora-list

Re: yum search behaviour

2008-08-11 Thread Julius Smith
If it's installed you can say rpm -qid `yum search ` On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Stewart Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an command-line option for recent yum releases so that it displays > package descriptions in a 'yum search'? > > I do prefer the one line results, but occ

Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

2008-08-11 Thread William Case
Hi; I have a dual boot system WindowsXP on /dev/sda; Fedora on /dev/sdb. Some days I find myself switching between the two quite often. I can also go weeks with no need of Windows. I am not sure if what I propose is possible, but ... I would like to create a script in Fedora, and a .bat in Win

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Björn Persson
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > The full path to the file is "/etc/xorg.conf". > > Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It was until recently. In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc/xorg.conf. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: This is a digi

Re: Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

2008-08-11 Thread William Case
Hi; As I think about it ... On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 13:10 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I have a dual boot system WindowsXP on /dev/sda; Fedora on /dev/sdb. > > Some days I find myself switching between the two quite often. I can > also go weeks with no need of Windows. > > I am not sure

Re: Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

2008-08-11 Thread Dave Burns
If you're really doing so much switching, I suggest you look at virtualization, so you can stop the rebooting madness. Dave On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:10 AM, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > > I have a dual boot system WindowsXP on /dev/sda; Fedora on /dev/sdb. > > Some days I find m

Re: CUPS

2008-08-11 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
seeism wrote: Hi, I installed cups in my fedora 8 system.I wanted to check the mime.convs and mime.types file in the /etc/cups folder but it is not installed in that path. Why so Seeism I'm not sure why you don't have them. They exist on my F8 server, and rpm -qf says they are both part

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:27 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS with current installed driver : 175.19 > > And about the graphical mode and level 3 or 5.. I really do not know > what that is or how to do it. I am as new to Linux as they come!!:( > > Could it have something

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Mike Chambers
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > > The full path to the file is "/etc/xorg.conf". > > > > Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > It was until recently. In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc

Re: F9 joining a windows domain

2008-08-11 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:10 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > Hi. > > I' trying to join my Fedora box to the corporate Windows domain. I tried > "Domain Membership" from Samba Documentation, but it's doesn't seems > what I want. I want my machine simply as a client, mimicking a XP > machine (so

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 00:44 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > > The only thing is that I do not know how to work this"# rpm -ivh > > http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm";... where do i enter this > > text? > > Hope you bear with

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:52 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > > I just realized that I have to download a driver to nvidia card > > specially for Linux!!! > > Just FYI, that sort of thing *may* or may not be necessary. Fedora > already comes with a

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > Could anyone please tell me exactly how I am supposed to install > Fedira, and if I have to write something, please tell me exactly how I > should proceed with that too, as I am suspecting im nit doing this > right?! When you bo

Re: Broken F8 driver for e-Sata chip

2008-08-11 Thread Dean S. Messing
Alan Cox wrote: >> >> Can someone (Alan?) give me some help on this. >> What is the current status of this driver? > >Tejun Heo got the driver working sort of based on the minimal data sheet >available. Initio promised info but then went silent whenever asked but >recently threw an updated driver

Fedora 8 and VMware Server

2008-08-11 Thread Gene Poole
I'm attempting to install the latest vmware server onto my running Fedora 8 server (AMD x2 5600+ 4-GB RAM) and I continue to run into issues when it attempts to create a kernel module. Has anyone run into this issue? And how did you solve it? TIA, Gene Poole-- fedora-list mailing list fedor

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:37 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > > > Could anyone please tell me exactly how I am supposed to install > > Fedira, and if I have to write something, please tell me exactly how I > > should proceed with that too

new kernels coming, but livna buildsys is down, thus no new kmods in time

2008-08-11 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! Just fyi, new kernels will afaics hit the Fedora 8 and 9 repos over the next few hours. But Livna has a buildsys outage and won't be able to builds new kmods for them in time. Sorry for the trouble. We'll build them asap; consider to wait with updating to the new kernels (they are afaics

Re: Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

2008-08-11 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 13:10 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I have a dual boot system WindowsXP on /dev/sda; Fedora on /dev/sdb. > > Some days I find myself switching between the two quite often. I can > also go weeks with no need of Windows. > > I am not sure if what I propose is possible

Re: Fedora 8 and VMware Server

2008-08-11 Thread Mike Fleetwood
2008/8/11 Gene Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm attempting to install the latest vmware server onto my running Fedora 8 > server (AMD x2 5600+ 4-GB RAM) and I continue to run into issues when it > attempts to create a kernel module. Has anyone run into this issue? And > how did you solve it? >

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:36:43 -0700 "Daniel B. Thurman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot > figure out why I cannot get the chain-loaders to work for w2kPro > and XP, but it works for Vista now (go figure!). It is entirely possible that XP and W2K will only boot if they believe they live on t

Re: Fedora 8 and VMware Server

2008-08-11 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Mike Fleetwood wrote: 2008/8/11 Gene Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm attempting to install the latest vmware server onto my running Fedora 8 server (AMD x2 5600+ 4-GB RAM) and I continue to run into issues when it attempts to create a kernel module. Has anyone run into this issue? And how did

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > > The full path to the file is "/etc/xorg.conf". > > > > Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > It was until recently. In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:06 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 00:44 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > > > The only thing is that I do not know how to work this"# rpm -ivh > > > http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm"

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:36:43 -0700 "Daniel B. Thurman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot figure out why I cannot get the chain-loaders to work for w2kPro and XP, but it works for Vista now (go figure!). It is entirely possible that XP and W2K will only boot if they belie

F9 and nVidia Quadro NVS 140 M

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
Is anyone running this combination with either the nv driver or the binary nvidia driver? Are there any issues--in particular with suspend or hibernate and resume? I have a ThinkPad T61 with this card. I'd like to know before I upgrade that I will still be able to suspend/resume. Thanks. --

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:57 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > If you're dual-booting, with Windows installed, just boot into windows > and see what it's set to. Use those figures. The refresh rate can also depend on the modeline. This is deep magic. Just copying stuff from the Windows setup is not guarant

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:14 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:37 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > > > > > Could anyone please tell me exactly how I am supposed to install > > > Fedira, and if I have to write someth

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:32 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:52 +0930, Tim wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > > > I just realized that I have to download a driver to nvidia card > > > specially for Linux!!! > > > > Just FYI, that sort of thi

Sony videocam w/ USB

2008-08-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
I have a video camera, TRV-260, which works nicely and has the Sony IR low light capability. It also has USB rather than Firewire for connectivity. Any thoughts on getting data out of this without huge loss of picture quality? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from t

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:50 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:36:43 -0700 > "Daniel B. Thurman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I cannot > > figure out why I cannot get the chain-loaders to work for w2kPro > > and XP, but it works for Vista now (go figure!). > > It is entirely

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:51 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:14 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:37 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > > > > > > > Could anyone please tell me exactly h

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Björn Persson
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > > > The full path to the file is "/etc/xorg.conf". > > > > > > Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > > > It was until

Re: Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

2008-08-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: Hi; I have a dual boot system WindowsXP on /dev/sda; Fedora on /dev/sdb. Some days I find myself switching between the two quite often. I can also go weeks with no need of Windows. I am not sure if what I propose is possible, but ... I would like to create a script in Fed

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Björn Persson
måndagen den 11 augusti 2008 skrev Mike Chambers: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:12 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > > > The full path to the file is "/etc/xorg.conf". > > > > > > Actually it's /etc/X11/xorg.con

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:50 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:36:43 -0700 > "Daniel B. Thurman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I cannot > > figure out why I cannot get the chain-loaders to work for w2kPro > > and XP, but it works for Vista now (go figure!).

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: As I pointed out, I was ABLE to boot w2kPro, XP, and Vista ONLY if my BIOs is set to boot Windows-Drive as the Primary boot drive. Heck - the boot-loader IS Grub! It WORKS and note that the boot-win is a logical partition! As the table shows, for the Windows drive, partit

Re: F8 & F9 (i386/i686): Problems with sendmail & dovecot

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: The /var/log/maillog shows: = Aug 1 16:20:06 gold sendmail[3269]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 97: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory Aug 1 16:20:06 gold sendmail[3269]: NOQUEUE: SYSER

burning iso image on a Mac

2008-08-11 Thread Jeffrey Berger
Apologies for the newbie question, but ... the Readme file contained in the download for f9 describes what needs to be done to burn an installation DVD on a windows platform, but my windows platform is not where I live. Most of the file seems to be windows-specific. Can someone point me

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 00:38 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Perhaps you meant -ql in both cases? Indeed. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: burning iso image on a Mac

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 20:13 -0500, Jeffrey Berger wrote: > Apologies for the newbie question, but ... > > the Readme file contained in the download for f9 describes what needs > to be done to burn an installation DVD on a windows platform, but my > windows platform is not where I live. Most o

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > As I pointed out, I was ABLE to boot w2kPro, XP, and Vista > ONLY if my BIOs is set to boot Windows-Drive as the > Primary boot drive. Heck - the boot-loader IS Grub! It WORKS > and note that the boot-win is a logical partition! As the table

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:49 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:57 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > If you're dual-booting, with Windows installed, just boot into windows > > and see what it's set to. Use those figures. > > The refresh rate can also depend on the modeline. This

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:26 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:32 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:52 +0930, Tim wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote: > > > > I just realized that I have to download a driver to nvidia card >

Re: burning iso image on a Mac

2008-08-11 Thread jeffrey . berger
Thanks! When Leopard helpfully mounted the image, I got confused by all the files and folders. Another question: I tried Ubuntu on my Inspiron 7500, but context switching was so slow it drove me crazy. Will Fedora be any swifter? -J On Aug 11, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Patrick O'Callagh

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-11 Thread Paul Newell
Fennix wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:29 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > > > 2008/8/10 Fennix <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >

Re: burning iso image on a Mac

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 21:07 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks! > > When Leopard helpfully mounted the image, I got confused by all the > files and folders. > > Another question: > > I tried Ubuntu on my Inspiron 7500, but context switching was so > slow it drove me crazy. Will

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: 2008/8/8 Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: Well ... my experience is different from those in the reviews ( maybe they were using windows as some were talking about re-install? ). Signal strength is about 75% according to network-manager when I

OT: top ten books for web site makers?

2008-08-11 Thread Dave Stevens
I am running a little project to host web sites (on a CENTOS and Virtualmin box) for non-profit groups. The local public library is taking recommendations for a small special collection to support web site newbies. Suggestions? Dave -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing peo

Re: Xvfb - desperate -- help needed...

2008-08-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:57 -0700, Tod Merley wrote: > but I gotta have the X11 > > applications features enabled (thus Xvfb) > > > Hi Ric! > > The little I know of virtual frame buffers is that they are used to > test hardware or provide a virtual KVM for an X client. I think you > simply want

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc/xorg.conf. Not here. That sounds more like you've moved it out of the way. Is it actually being used? You don't need a configuration file, most of the time, these days. So the chances are that it's not be

New Bugzilla workflows?

2008-08-11 Thread Allen Kistler
Is there any page or document that describes the new (RH?) Bugzilla workflow states? For example, I reported a bug for F9. It's now in the MODIFIED state, so it shows up as RETEST on my "front" page. I've retested it, but the bug is still there and the only thing I can do in BZ is close it,

Re: New Bugzilla workflows?

2008-08-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Allen Kistler wrote: Is there any page or document that describes the new (RH?) Bugzilla workflow states? For example, I reported a bug for F9. It's now in the MODIFIED state, so it shows up as RETEST on my "front" page. I've retested it, but the bug is still there and the only thing I can

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Bob Barrett
Tim wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc/xorg.conf. Not here. That sounds more like you've moved it out of the way. Is it actually being used? You don't need a configuration file, most of the time, these days. So the chances

Re: /b43#devicefirmware empty

2008-08-11 Thread Maurizio Marini
On Friday 08 August 2008, g wrote: > Maurizio Marini wrote: > > i get this > > > > Aug 5 18:11:58 matanui kernel: b43-phy0 warning: You must go to > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download > > the latest firmware (version 4). > > i have used linuxwireless.org be

Re: /b43#devicefirmware empty

2008-08-11 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Maurizio Marini wrote: ... no, the link is empty! look at the screenshot there is nothing at anchor #devicefirmware the section is empty The text "Device firmware" is a headline. Scroll down and you'll find the information you need. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department

Is Apache included with Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Adil Drissi
Hi, I want to use Apache-Mysql-Php in my fedora 8. I did "yum install apache" the result was "no package apache available" but httpd is already installed. So i want to know if apache is installed in my machine under the name httpd or i have to download it myself. If it is already installed plea

Re: Is Apache included with Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Knute Johnson
Adil Drissi wrote: Hi, I want to use Apache-Mysql-Php in my fedora 8. I did "yum install apache" the result was "no package apache available" but httpd is already installed. So i want to know if apache is installed in my machine under the name httpd or i have to download it myself. If it is a

Re: Is Apache included with Fedora

2008-08-11 Thread Remi Collet
Adil Drissi a écrit : So i want to know if apache is installed in my machine under the name httpd or i have to download it myself. If it is already installed please tell me how to start it. Yes https is apache. ++ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://w